Ethics Commission jurisdiction change is a long time coming

Alan Hassenfeld: Vote to improve R.I. ethics

For ethics, vote ‘yes' on 2

The Valley Breeze

This year, Rhode Island can turn a corner on ethics. For the better part of a decade, good government groups like Common Cause have toiled at the Statehouse to pass legislation that would give the Ethics Commission jurisdiction over members of the
General Assembly...

10/24: Question 2 consideration on State of Mind

James C. Sheehan: Fighting corruption in R.I.

The Providence Journal

The people of Rhode Island have a unique opportunity this election season. In addition to casting your vote for president and various other public offices, you will be asked whether to amend our state constitution to definitively give the Ethics
Commission jurisdiction over the Rhode Island General Assembly...

The people of the state of Rhode Island have a unique opportunity this election season. In addition to casting your vote for president and various other public offices, you will be asked whether to amend our state constitution to definitively give
the Ethics Commission jurisdiction over the Rhode Island General Assembly...

This year's ballot questions give voters a chance to reshape the state's political and economic landscape

Editorial: Supporting Question 2 is key for RI

South County Independent

On Nov. 8, voters will have the chance to improve ethics oversight of the General Assembly. Question 2 asks voters to restore state Ethics Commission jurisdiction over members of the General Assembly...

2016 Ballot Questions

Education Bond Could Benefit City's North End

Newport This Week

Election Day 2016 will task Rhode Island voters with deciding seven statewide ballot questions in addition to the array of candidates seeking public offices. Five of those questions involve bond issues totaling $227.5 million in new state borrowing...

RI voters to decide if lawmakers should face ethics scrutiny

Turn To 10

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Rhode Island voters will decide in November whether to give an ethics commission power to investigate lawmakers for alleged conflicts of interest and sanction them when they act improperly...

Ted Nesi’s Saturday Morning Post: Oct. 1

Good Government Group, ACLU Differ Over Ethics Commission Ballot Measure

RI NPR

The American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island is opposing a move to increase ethics oversight at the state legislature. A ballot measure would restore some powers to the state Ethics Commission...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) – Supporters of restoring the R.I. Ethics Commission’s original authority over General Assembly members have the wind at their backs heading into the fall, based on a survey they commissioned that shows overwhelming support
for the move...

Five questions for John Marion

Edward Fitzpatrick: 8 years later, RI's 'sorry parade' continues

Providence Journal

WARWICK — Eight years ago, I got this column rolling by taking a bike ride with Robert Clark Corrente, talking to him about public corruption as his tenure as the state’s top federal prosecutor was nearing an end...

Ethical challenges need oversight if R.I. is to improve reputation

Providence Business News

Last week Providence Business News spoke with House Speaker Nicholas A. Mattiello, and a major theme of the question-and-answer cover story involved how the speaker was planning on dealing with the legislature's reputation for having ethically challenged
members...